Agenda:
What’s new in your library? Questions?
West Fargo Public Library – broke an all-time record for circulation in June, 24800 circs.
Grand Forks Public Library – had a busy summer with the summer reading program. They are having the end of the year party next week. Cataloging is busy. Has anyone noticed how slow books are coming in from Baker and Taylor?
North Dakota State Library- have gotten through all the water troubles, and have been closed through most of June. Workers did dig up the back looked at pipes and reburied them, so they hope that doesn’t mean there are more problems. They have a cool braille Lego kit donated to them, and they hope to have it in circulation soon.
Old items:
- FAST subject headings – Liz showed the difference between the PAC before suppressing the FAST headings and after suppressing the FAST headings. The Discovery group also looked at this and approved it.
New items:
- Question about this record: Control number 1312318 Game Face by Sheri Green.
- Grand Forks found a record without an OCLC number and wondered if it is okay to overlay it. Yes it is okay to overlay records as long as they are for the same item. You may encounter more records without OCLC numbers since McKenzie library migrated into the consortium. It is best not to have duplicate bibs for the same item in Polaris because it makes interlibrary holds less efficient.
- Item history setting- ODIN can set this to keep the history for 9999 days – currently set to 365 days
- This is strictly for item history, not patron history. None of the libraries present had a problem with extending the item history to 9999 days.
- New Marc Editor in Leap
- Security settings are being increased for the Remote Client; this will affect remote workers – submit a ticket if you have access concerns
- IUG meeting – Liz described the conference. If you want to attend the conference next year, ODIN can set up your membership for you. A membership will give you access to the IUG website and forums as well.
- Transferring items to a branch library- be aware that stat codes will change if the list of stat codes is not exactly the same for both branches.